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Card #c192IR // #c192Synthesis

The workers drilled through quartz, creating clouds of silica dust, but weren’t given masks or respirators, although the white engineers and managers who inspected the work always wore protection.

— In our words · Source: No More Tears (Gardiner Harris)

[Use when]

Use when occupational risk splits by race or rank in the same mine.

[Why it matters]

Risk follows rank: the same air is safe or lethal depending on whose lungs breathe it.

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